[Milsurplus] WWII Radio Chatter??

[J Forster]

I also suspect that, as with much primary material, it would be pretty
hard to interpret w/o a maneuvering board. The messages would likely be
something like "Ship xxx turn 40 degrees to port to a heading of 320".
They are not exactly going to lay out the battle plan over the air.

Best,
-John



Hue Miller wrote:

> Not all of the WW2 sea battles were primarily carrier aircraft
> battles. There were some Pacific War actions which were
> really ship to ship slogging matches, big guns, torpedoes,
> and all that. No, i'm sure his setup did not employ anything
> as sophisticated as COR; he was just using a commerically
> available disk recorder. Yes, that would have provided only
> VERY limited recording time, only snatches of the action.
> Good point.